Here are 10 television shows in danger of being cancelled...
http://tvguide.sympatico.msn.ca/Watercooler/Top10/Articles/090420_shows_on_the_bubble_AD
Good bye! I have never seen any of you and will not miss you.
As Archie Bunker once said, "good ribbons!"
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Networks continue to confound me. Moving their shows all over the grid with no warning... death for a serialized show. They'll fill half the screen with their network "bugs" but can't run a notice telling viewers when to catch the next epsiode?!
CBC did this with Doctor Who. Fox did it with Prison Break. CTV did it when they ran the Sopranos. Global did it with The Shield, insulting viewers even further by relegating it to a sister network, CHCH, with no warning to the viewer. And then the suits wonder why the trend is for people to tune out and watch whole seasons on DVD later, and why viewership and subsquently the amount they can charge for advertising are tumbling...
TMN seems to get it right for the most part, a 13-part series starts on such and such a date, and runs weekly at the same time until it ends. Simple. Why don't the networks get it?
Also, the rerun schedule is ridiculous. If you're buying less that half-a-year's worth of shows, padding it out to a 9- or 10-month season with repeats is insulting. Run two 6-month seasons/year if this is the case. Viewers might return.
Good points! Inconsistency in timeslot has killed many a show.
One of my personal favourite examples was the second season of "Twitch City". Canadian director Bruce McDonald constructed a fine first season of that program. The CBC seemed to be happy with it but for some inexplicable reason decided that no one, including fans like me, would know when the follow up year's episodes would be played. To this day, I have never seen the second season nor can I tell you when it ran!
It's as though the CBC did not care.
I'll miss "Sarah Connor Chronicles" if that goes. I didn't expect too much when it first appeared, but the storytelling turned out to be complex and challenging with multiple characters' threads split over 40 years in present and future time -- they didn't dumb it down. Which could have been a terrible mistake, of course.
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